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The tag 'Hirohito' is associated with 12 posts.

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded June 10, 2007 REALAUDIO MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of former [...]


FTR #584 Rewriting History

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO In Mein Kampf (his auto­bi­og­ra­phy and polit­i­cal man­i­festo), Adolph Hitler spoke of the big lie: “Most peo­ple tell lit­tle lies. They would be ashamed to tell big ones. They would never credit oth­ers with such great impu­dence as the com­plete rever­sal of facts. Even expla­na­tions would long [...]


FTR #580 “The Jews of Asia” — The Sook Ching Massacres and their Significance for Today

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007 REALAUDIO NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. In many parts of the mod­ern world, Mus­lims are in con­flict with other reli­gious groups and, in some places, with them­selves. This broad­cast illu­mi­nates a rel­a­tively lit­tle known his­tor­i­cal episode–the Japan­ese persecution [...]


FTR #551 Moonlighting

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Sushi indus­try dom­i­na­tion in the United States by True World Group—a Moon proprietary


Gold Warriors

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

America’s Secret Recov­ery of Yamashita’s Gold, by Ster­ling & Peggy Seagrave


The Rape of Nanking

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

by Iris Chang; In Decem­ber 1937, the Japan­ese army sys­tem­at­i­cally raped, tor­tured, and mur­dered more than 300,000 Chi­nese civilians.


FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

At the time of her death, Iris Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March.


FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 29, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.


Miscellaneous Archive Shows M1—M30

Posted by FTR ⋅ January 2, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Pro­gram details and audio links.


FTR #446 Funds and Games

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 26, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 14, 2004 Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAu­dio High­light­ing the post­war use of Axis trea­sure recov­ered by the Allies after World War II, this pro­gram talks about these Funds and the Games that were played with (and because of) them. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the post­war use of the mas­sive amount [...]


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